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[Letter to] Dear Sir [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Ross, Alexander Milton, 1832-1897, recipient

Publication date: 1875

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Ross, Alexander Milton, 1832-1897, Brown, John, 1800-1859, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Boston, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 27.4M

Proof (printed matter). With proofreading marks and corrections in pencil; letter was printed in The Life of William H. Seward, by Frederic Bancroft. Proof created in 1899 or 1900

William Lloyd Garrison wants Alexander Milton Ross to suppress certain statements made by John Brown concerning the Northern abolitionists in the second edition of his book. (Recollections and Experiences of an Abolitionist, from 1855 to 1865, by Alexander Milton Ross.) William L. Garrison comments on John Brown's abolitionist beliefs

See Call No. Ms.A.1.1 v.8, p.76 (a-b), for a typed transcript of William Lloyd Garrison's letter to Alexander Milton Ross, Aug. 25, 1875. Includes a letter by Frederic Bancroft to Wendell Phillips Garrison, May 13, 1899, saying the original manuscript by Garrison is in the possession of his brother, a Chicago lawyer